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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

MINICONCEPTDOC #31: FIRST

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This was a fun but strange MCD to create. With FIRST I pondered considerably. After some intense thought about where to go with it, I walked straight to my media storage cabinet, opened the first drawer, and captured the first second of footage that played. I strung it all together in the montage below.

It was fun to see what popped up. And it became a nine year history of my life, my family, and the films I have made over that time. In essence, this doc has become a document of documents.

The strangest part is to see myself 9 years ago (the image of me on the blue background) in one of my films, then to see myself just a few months ago in the MCD for FALLING. Now I am old, gray, and wrinkled. I look like a kid while making my first doc: ENTHUSIAST. Hopefully I have improved over that time!

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Robert A. Emmons Jr. is a digital documentary filmmaker. His films include Enthusiast, Wolf at the Door, YARDSALE!, Goodwill, and De Luxe. Goodwill screened as part of the Smithsonian exhibition: Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement at the NJ Historical Society and won Best Homegrown Documentary at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico’s Lindbergh-Carranza International Goodwill Award as a Messenger of Peace for his work on Goodwill. From Feb. to Aug. of 2010 Emmons created two short docs a week. The 52 short docs formed the weekly internet series MINICONCEPTDOCS. His scholarly work focuses on media, documentary, and comic books and includes Who's Responsible Here? Media, Audience, and Ethics (Cognella 2009), The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film (Routledge, 2005), Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Univ. of Minn. 2007), and The Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina History (Facts on File, TBP). Emmons teaches media courses at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the Associate Director of the Honors College. He is currently working on a new documentary about Fredric Wertham and comics in the 50’s called Diagram for Delinquents.